sunheartcowfork.com http://sunheartcowfork.com geoff king's website Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:48:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Boing Boing advertising Scientology?! http://sunheartcowfork.com/2008/08/07/boing-boing-advertising-scientology/ http://sunheartcowfork.com/2008/08/07/boing-boing-advertising-scientology/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:45:06 +0000 Geoff http://sunheartcowfork.com/?p=27 BBtv: ]]> http://sunheartcowfork.com/2008/08/07/boing-boing-advertising-scientology/feed/ Resubscribing to Hugh Macleod http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/10/10/resubscribing-to-hugh-macleod/ http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/10/10/resubscribing-to-hugh-macleod/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:40:42 +0000 Geoff http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/10/10/resubscribing-to-hugh-macleod/ Hugh … I’d miss you too much!

Hugh saw my previous post about unsubscribing … and sent me a most beautiful cartoon … I bow to you, sir …

Satan's Cock. Mighty Tasty!!

It is a beautiful cartoon … :-) … Much is forgiven … Hugh, I’d like to say that I understand your point of view, but as a long-term participant in the world of co-operative development (culture, software, etc), I’ve seen too many behaviours pour out of Micro$oft that must be attributed to a rotten corporate culture … I’ll return to enjoying your beautiful art and your intelligent discourse when the Kool-Aid runs out …

(of course, I am tempted by the argument that I should never attribute to malice those behaviours of Micro$oft which can be ascribed to mere incompetence).

I know there are good people inside the organisation. I have worked with some exceptional escapees.

To be honest I think my problems are much deeper than merely Micro$oft … I am troubled by corporations, which are given the legal rights of a person, but whose behaviours are outright criminal, anti-social or anti-community. I hope this stuff is in the past for Micro$oft.

I do genuinely hope that a new Blue Monster emerges from this … but the signs have not been good.

]]> http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/10/10/resubscribing-to-hugh-macleod/feed/ Unsubscribing from Dave Winer http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/10/09/unsubscribing-from-dave-winer/ http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/10/09/unsubscribing-from-dave-winer/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:15:34 +0000 Geoff http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/10/09/unsubscribing-from-dave-winer/ Dave … um, seriously … I’ve put up with a lot of shit, but this is just stupid: How we’re twisted by the top-100 lists … you are only twisted if you want to be. Grow up … just ignore them.

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]]> http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/10/09/hugh-macleod/feed/ Why I won’t use Facebook http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/10/09/why-i-wont-use-facebook/ http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/10/09/why-i-wont-use-facebook/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:39:04 +0000 Geoff http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/10/09/why-i-wont-use-facebook/ Because I’m waiting for a solution that doesn’t sell my friends and relationships to unknown parties … among numerous other reasons … I’ve seen a lot of walled gardens grow and wither … and I don’t intend to pour my time and information into one when open solutions are not far away … Read this.

[UPDATE 20071206: The Beacon nonsense confirms my beliefs ...] 

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The geeks amongst us know exactly what I mean.

]]> http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/05/05/09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0/feed/ Using Speed Scheduler with Azureus on MacOSX http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/02/28/using-speed-scheduler-with-azureus-on-macosx/ http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/02/28/using-speed-scheduler-with-azureus-on-macosx/#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:10:02 +0000 Geoff http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/02/28/using-speed-scheduler-with-azureus-on-macosx/ It took me too long to work out where Speed Scheduler should be installed to use it with the MacOSX version of Azureus. Since I spent a while searching the net, here’s what I eventually worked out:

/Users/username/Library/Application Support
/Azureus/plugins/speedscheduler/SpeedScheduler_1.3.jar

(Of course, this should be one line!)

You’ll need to create the ’speedscheduler’ directory yourself … the Speed Scheduler plugin is distributed as a single JAR file.

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Mickey Mouse and clipping paths

Originally uploaded by wibbly.

This is a shirt that I saw riding beside me when I was on my way somewhere in Ho Chi Minh City peak hour traffic …

“MICKEY MOUSE
These rendered files have a smail amount of bleed added outside the clipping path. To use this image, first make a selection from the clipping path and copy image.”

]]> http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/02/12/mickey-mouse-and-clipping-paths/feed/ Drawing on video with Isadora http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/01/25/drawing-on-video-with-isadora/ http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/01/25/drawing-on-video-with-isadora/#comments Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:58:28 +0000 Geoff http://sunheartcowfork.com/2007/01/25/drawing-on-video-with-isadora/ Alfred said:

i want to draw LIVE with a wacom pad thin white lines onto the video.
the lines should dissapear slowly.
any ideas how to do that?

And then Zola said …

You could do it with the shapes actor going through a luminance keys actor (foreground
input) that feeds back to its Background input. You’ll have to put another video actor (in
bypass mode if you prefer) between the output and the input of the Luminance Key actor for
the virtual cable to accept to go there.

So here it is:

IsadoraPaintbrushExampleV1.zip

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